BOOKS

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Worship Together

Worship Together in Your Church as in Heaven
is a practical and foundational resource for pastors and worship leaders of all kinds. It addresses an urgent need in the church today: as our communities become increasingly diverse, how can we offer worship that is authentic and engaging for all of God’s people, including longtime church members? The authors offer an empathetic, step-by-step approach, providing readers with knowledge, skills, and strategies to successfully introduce inclusive, multicultural worship in any setting. Davis and Lerner are expert practitioners and pioneers who invite us to break new ground with them, making worship that more closely reflects God’s kingdom on earth as it is in heaven.

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Gladly Uncomfortable Worship
(a community practicing friendship and hospitality)

Gladly Uncomfortable Worship is a collection of essays and stories of a diverse worshipping community located in “the most diverse square mile in the U.S.” Jaewoo Kim shares his journey of transitioning from a mono-cultural to a multicultural context, following the call of cultivating a Jesus centered, multicultural worshipping community. This book is about loving the strangers, creating safe spaces for diverse cultural expressions, and building friendship that leads to mutual transformation in the community. 

[Note: this book is available in Korean only]

More Multicultural Worship and Community Books

Here are some books we recommend (in no particular order) for Jesus-centered, multicultural worshiping communities.

The New Testament in Color

(Esau McCaulley, Janette H. OK, Osvaldo Padilla, Amy Peeler, Eds.)

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Arts Across Cultures

(Warren R. Beattie and Anne M.Y. Soh, Eds)

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Learning Our Names

(Sabrina S. Chan, Linson Daniel, E. David De Leon, La Thao)

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